Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown

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• Pissmidget@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oi! Do you have a license for that tv stick?

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember a Scottish lady telling us in the ’90s about how they had vans that would drive around to find illegal TVs and the whole thing was just mind-boggling to me!

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They were bullshit, but the BBC really pushed it www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmdUcmLFkw

      They just visited houses that didn’t have a license on record.

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    • Pissmidget@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In Norway you could make good money as an antenna port removal person, essentially filling it with solder or some such, and making paperwork confirming it had been done.

      If you had that piece of paper you didn’t have to post licensing fees, as it was tied to the antenna port, funnily enough most everyone with a top box used the scart for television, so it didn’t really make a difference.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s (probably…?) an urban legend that used to be common knowledge in Germany as well (I remember my dad telling me about the vans). They SAY it’s not possible to detect TV reception like that buuut…

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• BCBoy911@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What the fuck? They’re raiding people’s homes for using jailbroken TV sticks? The UK is so unbelievably cooked

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The UK is such a mess, as a country. It always was, but since Brexit, it’s gone downhill even further.

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Receiving a cease and desist email from your ISP on behalf of rights holders for something you have torrented is almost a right of passage for a young person imo.

  Makes you learn to always use a VPN, especially on popular torrents (all it takes is one snooper in the seeds).

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